Job description for Backend Engineer – Bridge at FINSHOT, INC.
About the role
As a Bridge Engineer, you turn product requirements coming from Korea into detailed specifications that developers can implement as-is. This is not translation or message-passing: your job is to find the ambiguities, close them with the right questions, and produce specifications that are ready to build.
This is not a documentation-only role. You stay close to the code — verifying technical feasibility and writing specs that engineers can rely on. We are looking for a backend engineer who brings both strong specification skills and hands-on engineering judgment.
Key responsibilities
- Take product requirements and finalize them into detailed English specifications, covering edge cases such as failures, duplicates, limit overruns, and cancellations
- Break specifications down into work tickets and estimate sizing
- Write detailed English specifications (APIs, data structures, edge cases), draft tickets, and estimate size
- When blocked while writing a spec, open the code directly to confirm — performing bug fixes, refactoring, or technical validation as needed
- Respond to developer questions on specifications and coordinate technical matters with the Korea tech lead
Requirements
- 3–5 years of hands-on backend development(Java/Spring preferred; Go, Node, or PHP experience also welcome)
- Working-level English — able to write documents and run meetings (we assess sentence construction, not pronunciation)
- Experience designing REST APIs and RDB schemas
- Experience organizing requirements into documents (technical specs, API docs, BRDs, etc.)
- Native Indonesian speaker
Nice to Have
- Experience in finance / fintech / payments (bank SI, payment gateway, P2P lending, etc.)
- Experience collaborating with an overseas headquarters (foreign-owned or remote team)
- Experience with issue-tracking and documentation tools (e.g., Jira, GitLab, Confluence, Notion)
What We Don't Require
- Korean — it is not needed for this role
